Re: Not just in IT
"You needed to check the oil anyway didn't you?"
I suspect only people of a certain age will understand that. The days when you pretty much always checked the oil levels whenever filling up with fuel because not only were things like oil pressure sensors "high end tech", you might might be lucky to have an indicator lamp, let alone an actual pressure gauge dial or other warning and oil tended to disappear almost as fast the the fuel in the tank!
There was a documentary on Ch4 the other night about the building out of the UK motorway network. Many, many cars blew their big ends on the new motorways due to a lack of oil and temp indicators and cars suddenly doing many, many miles flat out, something they were not designed for and previously were not able to do because it was rarely possible to find that long and clear a road to do it on.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
